by Michelle Lentz
I’ve been alerted to a couple of new options for creating photo collages. It’s now much easier than dragging things around in Photoshop.
Photovisi is a web-based app that creates collages for your computer wallpaper. You can import up to 30 photos and select a pre-defined pattern from 18 different options. You can pull your photos from your local drive or from Flickr (although the latter didn’t work for me).
Alternatively, there is ShapeCollage, a free downloadable app by Vincent Cheung. ShapeCollage can automatically create photo collages in different shapes, like a heart, cat, or as WordArt. It created this collage of 200 photos of Vincent’s cat in under a minute.
There are two things I really like about ShapeCollage: it allows you to create your own shapes, and it’s nondiscriminatory. It’s available for Mac, Linux, and Windows. According to Vincent, he was never satisfied with available collage tools. “I created a program that automatically creates photo collages and attempts to optimally place the photos in the collage. I then realized that my program was not restricted to merely creating
rectangular collages like every other collage making software or website. I have created collages where the photos are placed so that they look like a heart, flower, cat, snowman, text, or different logos.”
ShapeCollages can be saved as JPGs, PNGs, or PhotoShop PSDs if you want to exert more control and edit the files yourself.
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